Published on
4/29/09. Categorized under
Life.
Do not adjust your sets. I know my most recent post was about two friends getting engaged. So is this post, but these are different friends. As before, I waited to post this until the couple in question made their engagement public knowledge on the Internet.
This past Saturday my roommate JD asked his girlfriend Liz to marry him. Her first response? I’m told that she quite literally jumped for joy–on him! Even typing that makes me smile. They plan to be married this summer. I can’t tell you how happy I am for them. I’ve known both JD and Liz for nearly seven years, going back to when I was a freshman at FSU. I first met JD through the Navigators after I had been in town for only a few days. Liz and I were in the same BCM Fish School our first semester. Later on, in a convoluted way, I was actually the person who introduced Liz to the Navs. So, I’m going to take minor credit for the fact that these two ever even met. Very minor.
Side note: Apparently I’m Hitch for alumni “never-daters.” When I move into a house these days one of my single roommates will “find” a lady, begin dating her, get engaged and get married, all in less than one year. That’s now happened twice in consecutive years. Ridiculous. Awesome, but completely ridiculous.
With all sincerity, congratulations, JD and Liz!
Published on
4/8/09. Categorized under
Life.
I decided not to post this until the couple in question made their engagement public knowledge on the Internet.
This past Monday night my old roommate Luke got engaged to my next-door neighbor Katie. Both of them are campus ministers with the Navigators at FSU, so as you can imagine this news is making waves in our community. (If you’re getting a weird sense of déjà vu let me assure you it’s well-founded.)
I found out about their engagement Tuesday morning from my roommate Joe. He claimed he told me mostly so that I could tell our roommate JD. Joe hoped if the news came from me that I would be the one to receive JD’s all-but-certain hug. You see, Joe isn’t exactly what you’d call the mushy type. JD, on the other hand, is much more in touch with his emotions. Knowing this, I like to instigate moments of faux conflict between the two of them.
Continue reading ‘Expressing Excitement’
Writing a post about my birthday on my birthday has become a tradition. Here are links to my past birthday posts: 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24.
I chose not to review my previous birthday posts before writing this one, so I could be wrong when I make this claim. But I’m pretty sure each year around my birthday I dwell on the same questions. Do I feel older? Am I really any wiser? How am I using the days I’ve been given? What’s my direction, and did the past year’s direction take me where I thought it would? I become very introspective (and even a bit emo, I’m ashamed to say) whenever my birthday roles around. This year is no different, so let me pull back the curtain a little bit and tell you what I’m thinking about here on my 25th birthday.
Continue reading ‘Turning 25′
